Category: Pic of the Day
NASA’s Crew-4 Q&A With Students at Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library
[ad_1] NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Jessica Watkins, and Robert Hines participate in STEM demonstrations with local students at the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library, Thursday, March 30, 2023, in Washington. Lindgren, Hines, and Watkins spent 170 days in space as part of Expeditions 67 and 68 aboard the International Space Station. Image Credit: NASA […]
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Amazonian Leaders Visit “Space for Earth”
[ad_1] Amazonian leaders visit “Space for Earth,” an immersive audio-visual installation that draws from near real-time satellite data and images, in NASA’s Earth Information Center at the NASA Headquarters Mary W. Jackson Building in Washington on Nov. 17, 2023. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Read More https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/amazonian-leaders-discuss-using-nasa-data-to-protect-the-amazon/Copy URL to clipboard> DownloadShare [ad_2] Source link
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Preflight Checks for Astronaut Loral O’Hara
[ad_1] Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara has her Russian Sokol spacesuit pressure checked ahead launching to the International Space Station with fellow crewmates, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Read More https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/expedition-70-preflight/Copy URL to clipboard> DownloadShare [ad_2] Source link
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Hubble Views a Vast Galactic Neighborhood
[ad_1] This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features a richness of spiral galaxies: the large, prominent spiral galaxy on the right side of the image is NGC 1356; the two apparently smaller spiral galaxies flanking it are LEDA 467699 (above it) and LEDA 95415 (very close at its left) respectively; and finally, IC […]
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A “Green Monster” Lurks in Star’s Debris
[ad_1] For the first time, astronomers have combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope to study the well-known supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A). This work has helped explain an unusual structure in the debris from the destroyed star called the “Green Monster,” because of its resemblance to the wall […]
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Orbital-1 Launch: 10th Anniversary – NASA
[ad_1] An Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket is seen as it launches from Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Thursday, January 9, 2014, Wallops Island, VA. Antares is carrying the Cygnus spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Orbital-1 mission is Orbital Sciences’ first contracted cargo delivery flight to the […]
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30 Doradus B: NASA Telescopes Start the Year With a Double Bang
[ad_1] This deep dataset from Chandra of the remains of a supernova known as 30 Doradus B (30 Dor B) reveals evidence for more than one supernova explosion in the history of this remnant. Unusual structures in the Chandra data cannot be explained by a single explosion. These images of 30 Dor B also show […]
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Verdant Farmlands of Simsbury, Connecticut
[ad_1] The Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9 captured this image of Simsbury on September 15, 2022. The tobacco farm where Martin Luther King worked—Meadowood—is located west of the Farmington River, a tributary of the Connecticut River. Image Credit: NASA/Joshua Stevens; USGS Read More https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/simsbury-oli2-2022258-lrg/Copy URL to clipboard> DownloadShare [ad_2] Source link
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NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Research Aircraft Unveiled
[ad_1] NASA and Lockheed Martin publicly unveil the X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft at a ceremony in Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. The X-59 is the centerpiece of NASA’s Quesst mission, which seeks to solve one of the major barriers to supersonic flight over land, currently banned in the United States, by […]
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An Aurora in Another Light
[ad_1] The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite sensor on the NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of the aurora borealis, or northern lights, over western Canada on November 5, 2023. Image Credit: NASA/Lauren Dauphin and Wanmei Liang; NOAA Read More https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/nameraurora-vir-2023309-lrg/Copy URL to clipboard> DownloadShare [ad_2] Source link
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